Leslie H. Gelb

Leslie Howard Gelb (4 March 1937-) was an American journalist and Defense and State Department official.

Biography
Leslie Howard Gelb was born in New Rochelle, New York in 1937, and he graduated from Harvard in 1964 and served as an assistant professor of government at Wesleyan University from 1964 to 1967. From 1966 to 1967, he served as an Executive Assistant for US Senator Jacob K. Javits, and he later came to work for the Department of Defense and helped to compile the Pentagon Papers. From 1973 to 1977, he served as diplomatic correspondent for The New York Times, and he served as Assistant Secretary of State from 1977 to 1979. From 1981 to 1993, he returned to The New York Times, and he later served as President of the Council on Foreign Relations and as a contributor to The Daily Beast.